[Opendnssec-develop] Re: PIN daemon

[Rickard Bellgrim]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Rickard Bellgrim <rickard at opendnssec.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Rickard Bellgrim
> <rickard at opendnssec.org> wrote:
>> We have been talking about a PIN daemon for some time now, and I was
>> thinking if shared memory would be sufficient?
>
> The problem I am seeing now is that getpass() does not work so good
> when we are working with daemons. How should the user enter a PIN to a
> background process?
>
> The PIN request is part of hsm_open().

Perhaps the daemons should block (within libhsm) until the user has
entered the PIN using ods-hsmutil?

// Rickard